Originally Posted by
Ken Cox
I normally ride with a 3/32 chain, and I like 3/32 for the light weight of the whole drive train, and because I don't have any reason to not like it.
Next spring I intend/hope to build a new fixed gear bike, possibly my last build, and the option of building a 1/8 drive train interests me.
However, as a weight weenie, the heavier 1/8 drive train would need to need to have some benefit, such as smoothness or reliability, in order to justify it.
I wouldn't go to 1/8 solely because of its traditional use on the track, but only if it offered some other benefit.
Input, please, from someone who has ridden both 3/32 and 1/8.
Thanks.
There is NO benefit and EVERY advantage to go 3/32. The only
vaguely possible reason you would not want to go 3/32 is the availability of 3/32 chainrings in 144bcd. Which is either shyte, or dura ace track which is $. Which is moot if you aren't planning on running 144bcd cranks.
1/8 is slower, noisier, heavier and above all completely unecessary on the road. I won't even bother debunking any of milbachs posts. I mean formulas are the same as phil woods besides the bearings right?